Renaissance man

Villa will break into the ' Big Four': Delaney backs his old club season alongside renaissance man Franck Queudrue.

* When exactly was the last time political Renaissance Man Tom Rath backed a winner in the New Hampshire primary?

This vertiginous and urgent task of measuring the measurements--and the measurers--is the subject of Paula Blank's second book, Shakespeare and the Mismeasure of Renaissance Man. This well-researched, genuinely original, and nuanced study approaches the subject of measurement from a variety of perspectives, and comes to an important conclusion: on the brink of the scientific revolution (that which Bacon, for one, helped to promulgate), Shakespeare's poems and plays consistently reveal profound ambivalence about the culture's available tools of measurement, comparison, and relative justice.

A true "renaissance man," his interests varied, from research and writing about aircraft carriers in World War II to air power in Korea and Desert Storm.

David Pogue is something of a modern-day Renaissance Man. He's familiar to many readers as a regular technology columnist for The New York Times.

I love being an Air Force officer, because it gives me the opportunity to be a bit of a renaissance man. I get to do technical engineering stuff along with a lot of public speaking, leadership, writing for publication, and rubbing shoulders with warfighters.

One mentor, Khalid Hill, a former member of the Noise/Funk national company, calls him "Renaissance man."

Although Smith's biography is more focused on Lee's career as activist and actor, she devotes individual chapters to each of Lee's previous careers, allowing the reader not only to see Lee as a "Renaissance man" but also showing the connections between Lee's careers and current times.

Introducing Nicholas of Cusa: A Guide to a Renaissance Man. Edited by Christopher M.

He was truly a renaissance man who did everything." Monroe adds that Parks "would want to make sure that young journalists and other young artists pick up where he left off."

In fact, when director James McTeigue and screenwriters Larry and Andy Wachowski (the Matrix trilogy) were updating the graphic novel's anti-Thatcherite politics for the screen, they changed one prominent character from being Evey's straight lover to being the closeted gay host of a popular talk show (played, natch, by gay Renaissance man Stephen Fry) who hides Evey after the government suspects she's in collusion with V.

This is a theme Jones explores at greater length in another working paper, The burden of knowledge and the "death of the Renaissance man": Is innovation getting harder?

A true Renaissance man, Beck has risen to international acclaim for his sculpture, as well as his abstract and figurative paintings.

Gordon Parks is a man of many gifts--the consummate Renaissance man, who has excelled in a wide range of arts ("A Lion in Winter," page 22).

A true renaissance man, Wong explored horticulture after he retired, and held two patents for his own species of plums and nectarines.